CHOCOLATE CHIP BLONDIES/MIX

This is the second recipe in a week that I have made a recipe from one of my most recently purchased estate sale cookbook, Taste of Home Grandma's Favorites, 2023. I wanted something fast and easy, as usual, and not similar to another treat one of the Cafe Treats Bakers was bringing Sunday.

This recipe is a bonus because you can make the blondies to eat now or you can prepare the dry ingredients layered in a jar and give it as a gift with the instructions for the added "wet" ingredients needed for the receiver to make the bars themselves.

You only bake the bars for about 15 minutes which surprised me since they are baked in a 9 x 13 - inch baking pan, but the recipe warns not to overbake and they were ready in 15 minutes for me.

I only was able to enjoy one small bar as I was cutting them Sunday morning before taking them to church. They didn't last long enough for me to sneak another one. I will just have to make them again.

 

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CHOCOLATE CHIP BLONDIES/MIX

2     cups flour

1     teaspoon baking soda

1     teaspoon salt

3/4  cup packed brown sugar

3/4  cup sugar

1     cup semisweet chocolate chips

2     large eggs, room temperature

3/4  cup canola oil

1     teaspoon vanilla extract

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Grease or spray a 9 x 13 - inch baking pan. Set aside.

Combine the dry ingredients with a whisk.

Set aside.

In a large mixing bowl, whisk the eggs, oil, and vanilla until blended.

Gradually add the dry ingredients,

mixing well each time.

Spread evenly in the prepared pan.

Bake for 15 to 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Do not overbake.

Cool completely in the pan on a wire rack.

Cut in squares when ready to serve.

DIRECTIONS FOR THE MIX

Combine the flour, baking soda, and salt together with a whisk. 

Using a 1-quart jar, layer the flour mixture, then the brown sugar, then the granulated sugar, and finally the chocolate chips in that order. Cover and store in a cool, dry place up to 3 months.

Include instructions for preparing (adding the ingredients to the eggs, oil, and vanilla as instructed above) when you give it as a gift.